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Henry Adams - College Essay

Henry Adams

The Education of the reviews Adams’s and the United States’s education and growth during the 19th century. Adams was an old man who had Puritan beliefs about sex and religion. In this autobiography, Adams voices his skepticism about man’s newfound power to control the direction of history, in particular, the exploding world of science and technology, where all certainties of the future have vanished (anb.org, 1).
Adams grew up in the United Stated where he was a Puritan. Puritans believed that sex (women especially) was just a form of fertility and reproduction; otherwise “sex was a sin” (Adams, 384). “American art, like the American language and ...

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mortal beings. People such as Rodin were representing women in paintings and sculptures sexually. Sex was becoming something more than just a means of reproduction. Suddenly Adams was far, far away from his Puritan custom-bound life.
People were no longer motivated by religion, being saved by God, and going to heaven; science, technology, money, and power had taken over the drives of man. Religion (a common “scale” of the past) had taken the backseat to science, technology, money, power, and the new ideas and art of sex (all new “scales” of the present and the future). “In opposition to the medieval Virgin, Adams saw a new godhead—the dynamo—symbol of the modern history’s anarchic energies” (anova.org, 1). Adams desperately wanted to learn about the new world of technology, the “dynamos”, yet he felt helpless to find this new knowledge and to comprehend it.
Adams was overwhelmed by the technology of the ...

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Added: 12/5/2006 09:55:37 AM
Category: Biographies
Type: Free Paper
Words: 420
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